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nlliTl | then act; they Will find honorable
employment that will not take them
from their homes and families. The profits
are large and sure for every industrious per-
son, many have mnde and are now making
several hundred dollars month. 1t il easy
for any one to make s. and upwards per day,
who is willing to work, Either sex, young or
old capital not needed we start you. Every
thing new. No special ability required /; you
reader can do IL as well as any one Write 10
us at once forf full particulars, which We mail
free Address StinRon & Co., Portland
Maine.
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FARM AND FlResIpE.

Growing clover for feeding, both
Tor its nutritive and manurial value, is
steadily growing in favor.-N r W.
ness.
Hogs need range and grass. Close
confinement in pens with diet mainly
OF corn can not fail to promote scrofu-
lousconditions. Orange County Farmer.
To make old-fashioned apple-sauce,
FIJI deep pudding dish with chopped
apples; put in two cups of sugar and
one cup of water. Bake slowly two or
three hours. They will bsa ''deep red
brown" and very nice.-Boston Globe.
Mice coffee without eggs: Make
small sack of cheese cloth, put in small
tablespoonful for each cup of coffee;
need not tie the sack; put in the pot,
and pour pint Of cold water on it.
Set this on in the morning and let ii
come to boil, then fill up as you wish
with hot water. Turn sack wrong side
out after breakfast, rinse and dry for
next time.-Boston Budget.
After stove has been blackened it
can be kept looking very well for a long
time by rubbing it with paper every
morning. Rubbing with paper is a
much nicer way of keeping teakettle,
coffee-pot and teapot bright and clean
than the old way of washing them in
suds. Rubbing with paper is also the
best way of polishing knives, tinware
and spoons; they shine like new silver.
-Erchange.
Bread Fritters: Cut thin round
slices of bread, butter them very thinly,
spread with jam, and stick together in
pairs. Fry in boiling lard. after dipping
them in batter of one egg. one pint
milk, a pinch of salt, and -four enough
to make pancake batter. Pile high on
a dish and sprinkle with sugar.-Good
Housekeeping.
Spice Cake: Beat two cupfuls
brown sugar. one-half cupful butter,
yelks of four eggs and whites of two
(save two whites to ice) till smooth; add
one-half cup sour milk, one nutmeg
grated, two teaspoonfuls ground cloves,
one teaspoonful ground cinnamon and
two cups of -four in which sift one tea
spoonful soda. Bake in three layers
and ice with white icing between and
Outside.-Bost0n Bulletin
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-19
THE HORSES STALL.
why 1t Should BE Supplied with MOVABLE
Open Floor.

Open Floor.
Some horse-owners, thinking to add
to add to the horses comfort by giving
drainage to the floor of the stall, raise
the forward part of the floor couple
of inches or so higher than the rear
part. The real incentive to this is more
likely to be the idea of greater ease to
the owner in keeping the stall dry with
the least outlay of bedding and labor,
without a thought to the great discom-
fort imposed upon the horse.
If the owner will observe the position
assumed by horses at rest in pastures or
stable-yards, he will find that horse
standing for some time in position
best calculated of any to give him rest
permitting the animal to be his
own judge-will never, for a length
of time, stand with his fore feet
on the ground higher than that
occupied by his hind feet, for this
position puts the muscles of the
loin and quarters upon the strain,
while, with the position reversed, the
muscles are relaxed, hence at rest. 1t
should be borne in mind that the fibers
of the muscles, while i'm the matter of
contraction and relaxation, are like q
spiral spring, are unlike the spring In
that they tire from being put under
tension and kept so. They require rest,
while the wire spring knows no tire,
hence needs no rest.
The horse, confined on floor of the
kind referred to, soon learns to get back
the length of his hitching strap. thus
iessening the angle of his footing by
getting his hind feet well out upon the
floor of the alley-wsy. How often do
we find that in passing behind row of
horses that stand upon slanting floor,
we are compelled to send them forward
into their stalls that we may pass along,
Test this by tying horse in wife,
double stall, where, by changing lis
position at will, he can place himselfson
level footing. or even more than this,
can plant his hind feet where they will
be slightly higher than his fore feet
, then observe, after he has finished his
feed, how often he is found in one posi-
ton and how often in the other. Place
the floor of box-stall few inches
higher on one side than ON the other,
and observe the proportion of time the
horse confined therein spends with his
head toward the side where the floor Is
highest.
We are well aware. from lone exper;-
ence with horses. that the relding.
urinating as he does upon the center
norton of his bedding. 80 ..fouls hi,
nest as to cause no inconsiderable
trouble in keeping his stall dry. This
which we admit is quite an argument in
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BRILLIANT SUCCESS.
S.skfactory Results Obtained by the Os
trich-Growers Of California.

Ssskfnctory Results Obtained by the o.
trich-Growers Of California.
The growing of ostriches in California
Is brilliant success. The feathers are
equal to the best grown in Africa. The
height of the birds is from to IL feet.
Their weight varies from 800 to 400
pounds. The male is much the larger
and is black, while the female is gray.
Some male ostriches weigh as much as
500 pounds. 1t is large turkey that
weighs 20 pounds. This shows that a
first class ostrich weighs as much as
twenty five large turkeys or four large
calves. To stuff an ostrich for baking
purposes, requires two bushels of filling.
When roasted you have one pound of
food for over 500 men.
The female ostrich does not begin to
lay eggs until it is four years old, but it
produces its first crop of feathers at the
end of its first year. Every seven
months thereafter its plumage is ready
for market, yielding about % Of the
very finest feathers, besides large
number of less valuable ones. The
feathers are not plucked, but are cut of
quite close to the skin with large shears
made for the purpose. No pain what
ever is infiictedin the operation. Within
. few days after the feathers have been
cut the stubs dry and shrivel to such an
extent that they are easily removed.
The lonOesf and finest whifa faafhar,s
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Mr.. Lee, in lecture at Brooklyn the
other day on the Tower of London. stated
that it is fact that grass could never
beinduced to grow upon the spot where
the hapless Lady Jane Grey yielded ur
her innocent life. Another interesting
episode was the narrative of the discov.
cry afew years ago of lower range OF
dungeons below those which were al
ready known to exist One of these, 8
lower oubliete, was found knee deeE
in water, the passage to it swarmine
with rats. and in the dungeon the skel.
eton Of . woman, with iron chains still
about the bones. Not the slightest clew
to her identity could be found, and ever
the very existence Of the dungeon had
been forgotten. - ki1odelphio Cal,
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MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Deadwood Cd. To- justice Of the
peace married couple recently. Ar
hour later they returned and applied te
thejustice for adivorce The bride said
that she got married merely to spite an
old lover.
The production of the very fines,
makes of steel has led to the perfection
of processes in the use of fuel at Spring
field. Mass. finer grade of gun-metal
is made by flame produced from gas
oline.-Boston Post.
Frank Grove, hunting deer on Blue
Mountain, Cal, saw one pass over a
ridge. He hurried up, and looking down
the slope and seeing what he thought
was the deer, fired, and put bullet
through the leg of miner who was
STOPPING over, shoveling.
Ten thousand families IN New York
are said to make way with their yege-
table refuse by br.rningi it in the kitchen
range An e.lort is being made to ex.
tend the practice, and If il is successful
New FORK will probably be the cleanest
city in the world.--N Y Mail.
In Washington dwell two women
who own so much bric-a-brac that they
have moved into larger house to ac-
commodate it. Among other rare things
is screen, such as is used in eastern
harems, made of carved wood, with
curious little windows which open and
shut like doors. Washington Post.
Awoman is bound to have the last
word. When the editor of the Peacine
reconstructed with the principal con-
tributor OF the poet corner of his valu-
able sheet Cor writing on both sides of
ner paper, she quietly retorted, swell,
ana Cont you print on both sides of
yours?"-Boston Transcript.
-Eunice Barton, an eighteen-year-
old girl of Frederick, w. Va, was shot
dead by her younger sister, who was
examining revolver that she knew
was not loaded. Eunice was to have
been married soon to Asa Gray, a young
farmer, but she was buried on that day
instead.
An engineer on an Iowa railroad
saw flock of turkeys on the track, and
knowing their habits, slowed up, blew
his whistle, and got them off without
killing any. The owner. unobserved,
saw the proceedings. ascertained the
engineers name, and sent him the fat
test hen in the flock for his Sunday din
ner.- Chicago Mail.
before the curtain was drawn up
at the Union Square theater last even
ing" relates the New York World, "a
young woman who occupied front
seat in the center of the orchestra stood
and deliberately removed lofty and
wide-spreading bonnet from her head.
AS it disappeared from the INSTRUCTED
view of those behind round of applause
greeted the considerable action Of the
young lady. At the conclusion of the
LIST act the occupants of the neighbour
ing chairs remained in their seats and
allowed her and her escort to preceae
them out of the empty aisle"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-19

Is possible, for 9 short time to the robust,
but the majority of refined persons would
their rocking atmosphere. How much
more revolving to be in ones self q iivisg
sescer. But this is actually the case with
those in whom the inactivity of the liver
drives the refuse matter OF the body 70
escape through the lungs, breath, the
pores, kidneys and bladder. 1t is astonish-
ing that life remains in such dwelling
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
restores normal purity to the system and
renews the whole being.
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soxr men never pay any thing but thsir
respects.-zSd-Bita
= Her t.ce . fair. !. l,e-h /. seemed not,

Her face 20 fair. a. flesh Il seemed not,
But heavenly portrait Of bright angels hue.
Clear as the sky. without blame or blot,
Through goodly mixture Of complexions due.
And In her cheeks the vermeil red did show."
This is the poets description of . woman
whose physical system was in q perfectly
ton acting properly, and il the enviable
condition OF its fair patrons produced by
Dr. Pierce's " Favorite Prescription" Any
druggist.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-19

LIFE is burdensome, alike to the sufferer
and all around him, while dyspepsia and its
attending evils holds sway. Complaints Of
this nature can be speedily cured by TAX
sands once thus afflicted now bear cheerful
testimony a. to its merits.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-19

&x-STATE CHEMIST WILLIAMS, Of Della
ware, says Red Star Cough Cure is great
discovery.
Public men everywhere recommend St
Jacobs Oil as the greatest pain-cure-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-19

CURTAINS have been introduced having
alternate stripes Of opaque and translu-
cent material, producing charming effects
and presenting the advantage Of two sets
Of curtains, the one heavy and the other
light.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-19

GONE Of the best friends to the Poultry
yard is the very effective Bone Mill adver-
tised by Wilson Bros, Easton, Pa The
one we have gives entire satisfaction.
Grind up the offals Of bone and I'LL the egg
basket 1t will pay"
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The cost Of Ignorance.

Absence of knowledge of the fact that
physical and mental weakness, indigestion,
impure blood, and sick headache can be
averted by Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic, costs
millions Of money annually for uncertain
and unreliable decoctions.
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and employ our radical, new method, guar
az iced to permanently cure the worst cases
Of rupture. Send 10 cents in stamps for
references, pamphlet and terms. Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association. 66S Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
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"CoSsIDER yourself engaged for thil
eel" ~ the ring said to the diamond.
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TIE wind is Always blowing about some
thing; but there Is nothing in it.-E' O.
Picaysxs.
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TEE original color may De restored to gray
hair by using Halls Hair Remover.
Important in sudden colds, Ayers
Cherry Pectoral is equally effectiveinl lung
troubles.
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WHEN the ground is frozen solid it ID apt
to be hard wInter.-Boston Post
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-19

8 months treatment for Soc. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. Sold by druggists
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TIE THROAT. - Brownie Bronchiog
Ttoehs" act directly on the organs of the
voice. They have an extraordinary eRecs
in tho disorders OF the throat Price Is eta
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PLEASANT, Wholesome, Speedy, for coughs
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The latest wrinkle-that in the tails OF
your overcoat-Ner Hduea Neses.
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The public has paid for Appleton's.
"American' g elopedia, = in its various
editions. including annual supplements
nearly tl5, 900 900.
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EPrrAPH on bad cook: "Out Of the fry
ing-pan into the fire."-TSd-Bits.
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TIE men who marry most frequently for
money are the ministers. II Philadelphia CGu.
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Honey is an excellent palliation in
coughs, colds. sore throat baby sore
mouth and early stages of diphtheria--
Montreal Witness.
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The washerwomen of Holland, who
get up their linen SO beautifully white,
use refined borax as washing powder
instead of soda, in the proportion Of
one large handful of borax powder to
about ten gallons Of boiling water.
They thus save in soap nearly half. All
the washing establishments adopt the
same mode. For laces. cambrics, etc.,
an extra quantity of the powder is
used, and for erinolines (requiring to be
made stiff a strong solution is neces-
sary. Borax, being neutral salt, does
not in the slightest degree injure the
texture of the linen; its effect is to
soften the hardest water.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-08

"Old Probs," it seems, has not re-
covered from his holiday frOlics. He
predicted fair aud warmer weather
for last Tuesday, when III fact it was
cold and cloudy, with sprinkle of
snow in the evening. He said we
would have colder weather and snow
Wednesday, which came up smiling
ly with bright and warmer weather
ProsperO Lodge No. "a. K. P, in.
stalled officers last Thursday night.
J.P. Rhodes S. P. c., E. N. Stone
G. c., A. V. Loving V. o., M. W.
Wheeler P, W. Y. Williamson K.
r. s. Il M. F., j. P. Wea,herford
M. E. E. n. Stone is representative
to the grand lodge and j. T. Rhodes
is alternate. j. P. Weatherford was
elected emeritus past chancellor.
The Washington correspondent of
the American telegraphs the awful
news that Congressman Glass of this
district "spoke at length" to him "in
regard to the matter of caucus, and
declared that the action of democrats
in opposing a caucus was outrageous.
This was his declaration, and the ut.
terance was plain aud uneqnivocal. y
That do settle it-momenfarilY. But
it will not surprise us if The dIstin-
guished gentleman is now in favor OF
a caucus. He is somewhat like the
Irishman's fee.
The February number of Scrihner's
Magazine, of which l25, 900 copies
have heen ordered as first edition,
will contain most interesting article
by Mr.. John G.. Ropes, upon the
"Likeness of Julius Caesar" with Is
portraits, one of which engraved by
Mr.. W. P. CIosson, will ne the front.
ispieoe of the number. A new story
is begVn in the same number, by Mr.
F. j. Stimson 81. :. uf I'sle), en-
titled, "rhe Rpsiduary Legatee ,
The second installmenl of Miuiste
Washhurne's "reminiscences of h,
Siege aud Commune of PARIS" i, .
The greatest interest, describing sS !
does the most interesting phases u
the siege.
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Personal.

Miss Minnie Baird, of Cairo, is
visiting Miss Hattie Guion lhis week.
Miss. Eta Mcdowell, of Hum,
boldt, is visiting Miss Maggie Mitch.
um.
The Rev. w. NJ. Robinson, of Reel
foot, came to town yesterday with
his family on a short visit.
Henry Warren, Esq, of Paris,
Texas, visited his fathers family at
Lavinia during the holidays. He
met many friends here.
Miss Evie Brown, of St. Louis, is
visiting the family of this editor.
She always brings sunshine to our
house, and never stays long enough.
Jim Horner requests us to make a
personal of him. He called at this
office yesterday, and, after charac>
teristic talk, reluctantly left for his
post Of duty at the Express Office.
We see in a Mitchell, Ind, paper
that Miss Bertha Wolfe, a former
teacher in the college here, has been
elected assistant superintende Mt Of the
Methodist Sunday.school. She will
mako an industrious, efficient officer.
His many friends here learn with
sorrow Of the serious illness of Chan
cellor A. q. Hawkins, at Hunting,
don, aud hope almost against hope
for his recovery, His death would
be a calamity in his town and division.
Mrs. Thos. Gardner, of Weather
ford, Miss. died last Sunday. Her
remains were brought here Tuesday
aud carried to Pleasant Hill, Hen
derson county, where they were inter
red. She was niece Of Messrs. w.
S. and A. NJ. Brown, of this city, and
she leaves a husband and thres chill,
I drep to mourn her d-llh
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RAILROAD ITEMS.

A cheap excursion will be run
from here to New Orleans on the 25th
inst. Oonly s6 80 for the round trip
IN the l. G.
Ticket agent Can:well of the l.. d
N. has just recovered from No attack
Of chicken pOx, and is again at his
post, after a weeks illness.
Supt. H. W. Clark, of the I. g.,
went to Cairo Wednesday to look af.
ter the plans and preliminary work
for building the big bridge there.
The engine attached to the L.& N.
passenger train No. 2 became disa.
hled near Gadsden last Thursday,
causing delay of about three hours
in its arrival here. She pounded out
n cylinder head, we believe. :
Conductor James D. Morgan, of
the Eye See, was married in jackson
last Thursday to Miss Ad1e Harris.
They left on trip to New Orleans.
MIR. Morgan is a very popular passen>
ger conductor, and his friends all
along the line wish him and his bride
long life and great joy,
About 8 inches of snow fell at Jack,
sou, Miss, Tuesday night. 1t extended
down the road as far as Hammond,
we learn. The noon train on the |.
Q. road came north Wednesday with
great icicles hongi1g to the coaches
and the trucks covered with snow,
while the weather here was bright
and pleasant.
Mr. W. B. Hopkins has resigned
his cIerkship in the |. &. office and
gone to drumming for a Memphis
house. F"nnie Loving takes his place.
Ed. Davis takes Fonnies pla in The
:. u N. offire. Tom. BlanEinship
takes Davis's place as l.. 4. n. leg.
gage clerk. Dick Lloyd take. Blank.
inshi"'s place us l. d N. night oper'
atUr,
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Some Other Milan.

Memphis Avalanche; A curious in
cident happened at Milan not long
since. In n family of weavers are two
beautiful twin sisters. so exactly alike
that only their most intimate aCquain,
tances can distinguish between them.
A young cabinet maker cnurted, as
he supposed, one girl hut made love
to both without KIN wing it, and the
girls kept each her. secret One day
recently the cabinet-maker visited the
mother and asked the hand of her
daughter in marriage. The mother
called the girls, and for the first time
he saw them Doth together, and when
asked which of her daughters he
sought to make his rom lanion he was
completely nonplussed and could not
tell "t'other from which" He did
not know how to decide, and as each
girl averred that it WAS she whom he
had courted, he asked time to consid'
er which he would take.
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Watch Lost,

On Wednesday morning, Dec. 18th,
the Rev. l.. F. Written lost a silver
watch either in Milan or on the SOUTH
bound |. G passenger train 1t is n
double case watch, sold by &. P
Barnes, Louisville, KY, No. of the
works 95, ,527, and the case No. E 10
The watch was given him by his
brother on his death he'd, and he pri>
zes it on that account. A suitable re
ward will he paid for its return to this
Office, or to the Rev. L. F. Whit:en,
Birmingham, Ala.
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SalOnn for Sale.

As l desire TO quit the saloon husi-
ness, l will sell my stock of Liquors
and Bar Furniture and Fixtures. |
have a good stand and am doing good
business. Fer particulars apply to
w. H. AVERY,
Bank Exchange Saloon.